Not Gonna Buy Any More Premixed E-juice. EVER.
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Glad to hear that. Indeed the first couple of days are a bit odd because as you said you're still getting your nicotine and not craving a nic but at the same time you feel that something's missing. It took me about a week to really get hooked on flavorless.
Thanks. Been DIY for about a month, I'm going slow but steady, Everything I've mixed I have been able to vape really haven't had any dogs yet. This seems to be a process that contains constant tweaking for that PERFECT MIX, if there is such a thing. What I'm saving by vaping, over $7,ooo a year PLUS what I am saving on juice is incredible and I know what is in my juice because I put it there. This forum has been tremendous in terms of helping the entire diy experience. As I tweak more and more of my mixes I will be posting these recipes. Thanks to all.
That's pretty impressive. I save about $1250 per year vaping plus a few bic lighters. Smokes are cheap here - about $24 per carton.
In 10 months, I have saved about $960 on smokes. In that same time frame, I have spent over $2,200 on vaping goodies. It's a darned good thing that saving money wasn't my primary motivation for vaping.
My name is Jeff and I'm a REOholic
That's pretty impressive. I save about $1250 per year vaping plus a few bic lighters. Smokes are cheap here - about $24 per carton.
In 10 months, I have saved about $960 on smokes. In that same time frame, I have spent over $2,200 on vaping goodies. It's a darned good thing that saving money wasn't my primary motivation for vaping.
My name is Jeff and I'm a REOholic
I live in New York and its $11 a pack and I smoked 2 packs a day, $22 per day, so money was a motivator.
Shipment from Highbrow Vapor came today and I was able to order AVE-Juice yesterday and I got an email today saying it was mailed! Yeah!!! I know that this is the DIY thread, but I'm just not really very good at that and don't seem to have the motivation to learn. I'm glad that my no-flavor vaping has come to an end for now, although it was a great learning experience for me that I can survive if push comes to shove and if flavors were to be totally banned, I would get by!
Trippy, can I call you that?
I will probably be sending you 5+ pms to help me walk through the process....FYI. Say no if it's ok. I won't be offended. Just confused hehe
I don't want to die by exploding 100mg of nicotine or whatever it is all over myself. (Total "newbie," all over again) Yay aren't you excited?
Trippy, can I call you that?
I will probably be sending you 5+ pms to help me walk through the process....FYI. Say no if it's ok. I won't be offended. Just confused hehe
I don't want to die by exploding 100mg of nicotine or whatever it is all over myself. (Total "newbie," all over again) Yay aren't you excited?
You can call me Trippy if it does ya.
I'd be more than happy to provide whatever help possible via PM, but keep in mind I'm a total newbie to DIY and there are other very helpful folks hanging about with much more experience than myself. Browse the DIY subforum and you'll pick up a lot of great tips and information. Some of the Reonauti here have given me a lot of great advice!
Don't even think about handling 100mg nicotine without the gloves, face shield, etc. You don't want that stuff to come in contact with any exposed skin. Consider a much less concentrated nicotine for your first foray in DIY. It will require more mLs in your recipes, but is much safer to handle and you can still hit your target nic strength in your liquid.
Say what you will about the premixes, but nobody better lay a finger on my Tastyfinger
You can call me Trippy if it does ya.
I'd be more than happy to provide whatever help possible via PM, but keep in mind I'm a total newbie to DIY and there are other very helpful folks hanging about with much more experience than myself. Browse the DIY subforum and you'll pick up a lot of great tips and information. Some of the Reonauti here have given me a lot of great advice!
Don't even think about handling 100mg nicotine without the gloves, face shield, etc. You don't want that stuff to come in contact with any exposed skin. Consider a much less concentrated nicotine for your first foray in DIY. It will require more mLs in your recipes, but is much safer to handle and you can still hit your target nic strength in your liquid.
Tripp, I agree about the dangers of 100mg nic. I found that cutting it down into 50mg before use is about the best thing to do. That way you are only dealing with it once. I have used it before and that is what I chose to do.
Face shield? 
I'm not that unhappy with my peanut butter and vanilla custard ejuice...
I'll leave it to the professionals! I'm the type of klutz that falls over those invisible bumps in the carpet. I should probably stay away from DIY mixing.
I'm not that unhappy with my peanut butter and vanilla custard ejuice...
I'll leave it to the professionals! I'm the type of klutz that falls over those invisible bumps in the carpet. I should probably stay away from DIY mixing.
Nah, Keekers, just stay away from the really dangerous stuff.
Just get yourself some flavouring and nic juice in your personal strength and start the creativity.
Half a liter of 24mg for $25: 24mg Nicotine solution - 500ml
Just get yourself some flavouring and nic juice in your personal strength and start the creativity.
Half a liter of 24mg for $25: 24mg Nicotine solution - 500ml
So after one week, I feel fairly certain of my findings trying the vaping zone flavorings. I have to say they produce the best dang e-juice I have ever tasted, well the tobaccos anyway. I have French pipe (a deliciously smooth vape, with a bite on the end), Black and mild ( OH SOOO GOOD, Smooth as silk, tastes like a black and mild SHOULD taste like, not what it does), Honey Flu Cured (my new ADV, I think it is very similar to AVE's Flu Cured), and Virginia Flu Cured (a straight up flu cured taste that is awesome, and capable of carrying another flavor well, such as caramel).
I also got banana and dr pepper. Banana is candy banana (like runts) which is not for me, and Dr pepper just tastes weird... not at all like dr pepper to me, but I am going to try it at different percentages to see if it gets better with more flavor, hey I cant ruin a bottle of juice I don't like, and I already bought the flavoring.
SO, in conclusion, I have found my stuff. It needs just a couple days to steep. I found 4 tobacco flavors I love, that need no mad scientist flavor additions, they ROCK just by themselves, and it only needs 2.5% flavoring in 50/50 pg/vg. I would go 3% for 100%VG. it is 7 bucks for 7ml of it, and it only takes 2.5ml to mix 100ml, BONUS~!
Just thought I would share this, it would be especially helpful to those wanting a good tobacco vape without all the mixing, and testing, and 2 week steeps, etc.
I also got banana and dr pepper. Banana is candy banana (like runts) which is not for me, and Dr pepper just tastes weird... not at all like dr pepper to me, but I am going to try it at different percentages to see if it gets better with more flavor, hey I cant ruin a bottle of juice I don't like, and I already bought the flavoring.
SO, in conclusion, I have found my stuff. It needs just a couple days to steep. I found 4 tobacco flavors I love, that need no mad scientist flavor additions, they ROCK just by themselves, and it only needs 2.5% flavoring in 50/50 pg/vg. I would go 3% for 100%VG. it is 7 bucks for 7ml of it, and it only takes 2.5ml to mix 100ml, BONUS~!
Just thought I would share this, it would be especially helpful to those wanting a good tobacco vape without all the mixing, and testing, and 2 week steeps, etc.
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I usually take my nic immediately down to 19-20mg. that way once I add flavoring I am somewhere in the high teens
So after one week, I feel fairly certain of my findings trying the vaping zone flavorings. I have to say they produce the best dang e-juice I have ever tasted, well the tobaccos anyway. I have French pipe (a deliciously smooth vape, with a bite on the end), Black and mild ( OH SOOO GOOD, Smooth as silk, tastes like a black and mild SHOULD taste like, not what it does), Honey Flu Cured (my new ADV, I think it is very similar to AVE's Flu Cured), and Virginia Flu Cured (a straight up flu cured taste that is awesome, and capable of carrying another flavor well, such as caramel).
I also got banana and dr pepper. Banana is candy banana (like runts) which is not for me, and Dr pepper just tastes weird... not at all like dr pepper to me, but I am going to try it at different percentages to see if it gets better with more flavor, hey I cant ruin a bottle of juice I don't like, and I already bought the flavoring.
SO, in conclusion, I have found my stuff. It needs just a couple days to steep. I found 4 tobacco flavors I love, that need no mad scientist flavor additions, they ROCK just by themselves, and it only needs 2.5% flavoring in 50/50 pg/vg. I would go 3% for 100%VG. it is 7 bucks for 7ml of it, and it only takes 2.5ml to mix 100ml, BONUS~!
Just thought I would share this, it would be especially helpful to those wanting a good tobacco vape without all the mixing, and testing, and 2 week steeps, etc.
You are at $7 for 7ml? That is high! I usually buy my flavors in the bigger bottles, nic on sale at least 250 ml, and VG is only around $15 for a quart. My average is around $3 for 30ml.
2.5% gives perfect flavor. Most flavorings need 5, 7,10, 15, even 20% to be good. You use less hence higher cost
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